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@eine tetes atsnt @Huey GEORGE E. BALDWIN, OF WEST MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO E. MILLER AND COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 71,949, dated December 10, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT nv LAMP-Bananas.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. BALDWIN, of West Meriden, in the county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Lamp-Burner; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a vertical central section, and in Figure 2 a view from the under side, looking up.

This invention relates to an improvement in burners for lamps designed for burning kerosene oil, or otherV carbon or explosive fluids, its object being to overcome theliability to explosion from the ignition of gas generated within the lamp.

.Heretofore burners have been constructed with the opening through the wicktube, by which the wick is raised or lowered, in direct communication with the flame, that is to say, so that the gas which might pass out through the said opening so lls the chamber around the burner, that nothing prevents its ignition'from the dame, and which ignition causes explosion, this being generally the only vent in the burner. To overcome this didiculty is the object of my invention, which consists in forming a close or tight chamber around that portion of v the tube through which the wick-feed passes, and combining therewith a second tube, opening from the lamp to near the flame, so that gas formed 'or generated within the lamp will pass out andbe consumed by the llame directly.

To enable others to construct and use my improvement, I will proceed to describe the same, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings. i i

A is the socket, by which the top is secured to the lamp, B the wick-tube, C the wick-feed, D the body of the burner, and E the dome, all constructed and arranged relatively to' each other in the common and wellknoivn manner. Upon one side of the wick-tube, or at any convenient pont,.I arrange'a smaller tube, E, opening from the lamp, and leading directly to the ame end of the wicktube, andaround the two tubes, and above the wick-feed; and within the body D, I xa solid partition, F, arranged so that the air-passageu shall be above the partition F, and so that there can be no communication from the chamber formed by the partition F, i

directly or indirectly, with the flame, and so that whatever gas is formed or generated wit-hin the lamp will pass up through the tube E to and be consumed by the flame, thus forming practically a close burner, and one which precludes the possibility of explosion.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming the tubeE for the purpose of venting the lamp, but, having thus full)T described my invention, y I

What I do claim as new and useful, und desire to secure by Letters Patent, iS

The arrangement of the auxiliary or Ventilating-tube E, with the wick-tube B, combined with a solid partition, in the base of the burner, so as to form a close chamber around the tubes and wick-adjuster, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

G-EO. E. BALDWIN'.

Witnesses:

E. W. Persoons', LINUS Bransnr. 

